Millennial-Learners - Generation wired-Week 2

Week 2: Participants will: * talk more about Generation Wired, collaboration and communication.

review the difference between Blogger, WikiSpaces, Google for Education and the more "generic" Google accounts.
use different apps associated with both.
create and use a Diigo for Education account.

Ways to expand communication and collaboration using "Social Media" tools.* Blogger: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs

Wikispaces: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis
Google Account and Sites with School Domain v. Google Accounts and Sites with Gmail: http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5-sites/chapter-1/2-2
Diigo: http://diigo.com

Preview

Create * Diigo teacher account for storing bookmarks: http://diigo.com

* Learn the basics of:

Access, use, and/or review
- Google Search Tools: Wonder Wheel, Timeline, Books, News, Scholar, Related Search
- Google Calendar
- Google Sites
- Google Chrome Browser

Parting thought: What if all our classrooms were like our school's media centers?

Assignment:

Students AND/OR Teacher creates survey or form that applies to their own class’ lessons.
Use the form in class and upload this artifact to student and teacher eportfolios.
Create participants’ own class Diigo group account.
Save bookmarks for this topic to both course and classroom Diigo accounts.
Read
- Backchannelling in a First Grade Classroom:
  - http://grade1ad.litcircuits.com/2010/03/27/backchanneling-in-grade-1/
- http://missjennieb.edublogs.org/2011/01/18/backchanneling/
- http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/11/19/backchanneling-with-elementary-school-students/
- Students as Meaningful Contributors:
  - http://langwitches.org/blog/2010/04/10/students-as-meaningful-contributors/
- Digital Farms by Alan November